Marty Lyons doesn’t know if his mild stroke is a direct result of the concussions he suffered as one of the all-time warrior Jets, but now he knows what a brush with death feels like.

“I went to bed, and about an hour into a deep sleep, I started getting cramps in my legs, and I felt like, ‘Try and pull your toes up, do everything possible to get rid of ’em,” Lyons told The Post on Tuesday. “And then I made a decision to try to stand up. And when I stood up, the next thing I know, I had paramedics around me. They took my blood pressure, and it spiked over 200.”

This was on July 10, following his Lyons Foundation Golf tournament.

His sons Rocky, who is a physician, and Jesse, who has completed two years of medical school, were fortunately staying at the Lyons’ Smithtown (L.I.) home.

“Everybody that was in the house said they heard the thud of when I fell,” Lyons said. “I remember falling, and I told myself, ‘You’re on the floor, you might as well sleep here.'”

Then he blacked out. Rocky, two rooms away at the time, called for the paramedics immediately.

“There was none of this, ‘No, I’m OK, I’ll be all right.’ … I don’t know if I had enough strength to fight ’em,” Lyons said.

Lyons was rushed to St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center Hospital in Smithtown and hooked up to IVs.

“At that time, I experienced double vision, and then it kind of went away,” Lyons said.

He was transferred after three hours there to Huntington Hospital.

“They took me in the ambulance to the second hospital,” Lyons said.

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He was comforted in the emergency room by the expertise surrounding him.

“I knew I was in good hands because I had Dr. Ernie Vomero from the Foundation and Dr. Brian McKenna, who’s a personal friend of mine. I couldn’t have asked to be in better care,” Lyons said.

The CAT scans and the MRI and the EKG exams turned out negative. He spent a day and a half in the hospital.

“I left the hospital, everything was fine, and went home, took a nap, woke up and I had double vision again,” Lyons said.

A second MRI exam revealed fourth nerve palsy, which affects the vision.

“The doctor feels that it will completely recover,” Lyons said. “It could take up to 90 days. I’m seeing improvements daily, but it’s only been three weeks. … Closing one eye when you go up and down the steps so you don’t have the illusion of two steps and miss the right one.”

Lyons is 60, from an era in which few of the gladiators from his generation can tell you how many concussions they suffered.

“I had quite a few,” Lyons said. “I don’t think you can rule it out that it couldn’t make blood pressure spike, I don’t know.

“I do know that hypertension is known as the silent killer.”

But of course he has CTE concerns.

“Without a doubt I do,” Lyons said. “You know, you’re seeing guys that you played with that are suffering from way more than I am. But you can’t worry about things you can’t control. You can’t go back to the past and say, ‘I wish I would have done this.'”

Giants Hall of Fame linebacker Harry Carson has said he would not play football if he knew then what he knows now. If Lyons had to do it all over again, Lyons would.

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“Without a doubt, I’d play,” Lyons said. “It was definitely my way of being able to attend the University of Alabama, get a football scholarship, get an education, fulfill a childhood dream of making it to the NFL — I don’t have any regrets. I think if some of the information was disclosed earlier to us, maybe I would have taken better care of myself and maybe not push yourself as much as we did back then. But I don’t have any regrets.”

Lyons saw the disturbing “Concussion” movie.

“I want to give the NFL the benefit of the doubt to say that maybe their medical staff didn’t know the long-term effect,” Lyons said. “I want to believe that. I don’t want to sit here with any regrets saying that they just put us out there because we were part of this big multi-billionaire company called the NFL and they didn’t care about our health. I just don’t want to believe that. So I make myself believe that maybe the medical people didn’t have enough research, or spend enough money to know what these long-term effects that the players were gonna have if they did have a concussion.”

Lyons plans to return to his LandTek Group offices sooner rather than later.

“The last three weeks I found out that I’m not doing nothing,” Lyons said.

Lyons, a man of class, a Ring of Honor Jet, answers a question about this brush with death this way: “Like my wife said, ‘A stroke is a stroke.’ I’m fortunate and blessed. It could have been worse. There’s lot of ‘ifs’ if the boys weren’t there.”

He hopes to return to his Jets color commentator job for Jets-Giants on Aug. 26.

“I wear a patch over one eye, and then I’ll switch it over to the eye,” Lyons said. “It’s when both eyes are together, and they have to move together, that’s when that nerve four palsy comes into play, and the left eye will be moving and the right eye will slow down and then it doesn’t go as far as the left eye, which now creates that illusion of double vision. Your body has to learn to compensate, and I think the attitude I’ve taken is I know I have all the trust in the world in all the doctors that it will return … what if it doesn’t? So you gotta compensate.

“You’ve seen people live with their handicaps, and nobody’s ever said, ‘Hey, why me?’ I’m not gonna say, ‘Why me?'”

Asked what he would want to say to Jets fans who love him about his brush with death, Lyons paused and said: “I would say, ‘You gotta have faith,’ and, ‘I’ll be back.'”